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The concept of resistance is of basic significance for psychoanalytic technique and because of its central position, its ramifications touch upon every important technical issue. Resistance has to be approached from multiple points of view in order to be properly comprehended. The present theoretical discussion will touch only on a few fundamental considerations which are of general importance for understanding the clinical and technical problems. More specific theoretical questions will be dealt with in relation to particular problems. For a more comprehensive metapsychological approach, the reader is referred to the classical psychoanalytic literature (Freud, 1912a, 1914c, 1926a, 1937a; A. Freud, 1936; Fenichel, 1945a, Chapt. VIII, IX; Gill, 1963, Chapt. 5, 6).